We had to leave the house at 3am on Sunday, June 6. Mark drove us to the airport. We arrived by 3:45am. We met our group of 27- 8th graders and 3 chaperones. All from Boerne Middle School North. Rebecca's history teacher, Coach Degner, organized this field trip. I am so grateful he spent the time. It was worth every penny and I would love to go back.
About 700 British Army regulars were given secret orders to capture and destroy military supplies that were reportedly stored by the Massachusetts militia at Concord. Through effective intelligence gathering, Patriout colonials had received word weeks before the expedition that their supplies might be at risk and had moved ost of them to other locations (they buried a cannon on one of the farms) They also received details about British plans on the night before the battle and were able to rapidly notify the are militias of the enemy movement.
The first shots were fired just as the sun was rising at Lexington. The militia were outnembered and fell back, and the regulars proceeded on to Concord, where they searched for the supplies. At North Bridge in Concord, appoximately 500 militiaman fought and defeated three companies of the King's troops. The outnumbered regulars fell back from the minutemen after a pitched battle in open territory.
We arrived in Boston around 11am. The tour bus picked us up and off we went. We went through a tunnel that connects the airport's island to the rest of Boston. It took the tunnel about 20 years to be built. It is completely under water. As they were digging it, they came accross wooden water pipes that were still under pressure.
We drove to Concord, MA. We had a picnic lunch and the kids played soccer and frisbee for a little while.
The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. They were fought on April 17, 1775. The battles marked the outbreak fo open armed conflict between the Kingdom fo Great Brittain and its thirteen colinies in the mainland of British North America
About 700 British Army regulars were given secret orders to capture and destroy military supplies that were reportedly stored by the Massachusetts militia at Concord. Through effective intelligence gathering, Patriout colonials had received word weeks before the expedition that their supplies might be at risk and had moved ost of them to other locations (they buried a cannon on one of the farms) They also received details about British plans on the night before the battle and were able to rapidly notify the are militias of the enemy movement.
The first shots were fired just as the sun was rising at Lexington. The militia were outnembered and fell back, and the regulars proceeded on to Concord, where they searched for the supplies. At North Bridge in Concord, appoximately 500 militiaman fought and defeated three companies of the King's troops. The outnumbered regulars fell back from the minutemen after a pitched battle in open territory.
Statue of a minuteman in Lexington.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, in his "Concord Hymn", described the first shot fired by the Patriots at the North Bridge as the "shot heard 'round the world," even though it was not the first shot of the war.
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